The sum effect of these "generous" proposals was to offer the Palestinians far less than the remaining 22 percent of their historic homeland. They would have had to subtract from a state in Gaza and the West Bank large parts of the expanded municipality of Jerusalem, as well as the Latrun Salient, eight percent of the West Bank to accommodate the settlements, and a further 20 percent for a security zone in the Jordan Valley.
 
1. Israel's illegal settlement blocs would be kept, with 80 percent of the settlers remaining in the West Bank on land annexed to Israel.
 
2. A wide "security zone," supervised by the Israeli army, would be maintained along the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, from the Dead Sea to the northern Jewish settlement of Meholah
 
3. On East Jerusalem, Israel demanded massive territorial concessions in line with its illegal annexation of the part of the city occupied by Israel in 1967. 

As many of you know, I spent five weeks last winter with the PFTA (Palestine Fair Trade Association) conducting interviews and doing research for my undergraduate thesis.  Now, I am back in Jenin to complete a two to three month internship with the PFTA.  I will be sending weekly emails to this list with anecdotes, experiences, and news from the West Bank.